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{{quote|''Hi. You're going to call off your rigorous investigation. You're going to publicly state that there is no underground group. Or we are going to take your balls. Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we connect your calls, we guard you while you sleep. Do '''not''' fuck with us.''|'''Tyler Durden''', ''[[Fight Club]]''}}
When a fascist or otherwise extreme political group is investigated and busted, a member, often the leader, brags how the group is everywhere. The group member will further claim that their movement is growing, and will rule supreme someday, leaving the heroes concerned that there will be more trouble in the future.
Currently often associated with right-wing militia movements, which became a [[Western Terrorists|trope of their own]] following the [[Right-Wing Militia Fanatic|militia scare]] in the media after the Oklahoma City bombing.
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{{quote|'''Agito:''' ''"You probably thought Chronos was simply a secret organization, but we are very public. Classmates, politicians, ambassadors. It is an international community all linked through the clandestine operations of the Chronos Corporation. A simple matter like the attack on the school is easily covered with key positions in the media, and the police are controlled by us. We're everywhere. We're everyone. The Earth is now within our grasp... a possession of Chronos."''}}
* ''[[Grappler Baki]]'', possibly inspired by ''[[Fight Club]]'', pulls a similar stunt after a guy in a fighting club got killed. The waiter, the police, the owner of the amusement park, all of them are part of the club.
* Reasonably early on in ''[[
* Quite early in ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'', Yuki and Ryoko tells Kyon that her fellow interfaces have long infiltrated the school, and that quite a few of them are like [[Ax Crazy|R]][[Well-Intentioned Extremist|yo]][[Knife Nut|ko]]. Later, Koizumi tells Kyon that other members from the Organization are everywhere, and are in high places, like the president of the [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]].
* Showed rather than said, but The Dollars in ''[[Durarara!!]]'' definitely count. One of the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moments of Awesome]] comes when {{spoiler|Mikado Ryugame}} is in a tense stand-off with [[Smug Snake|Namie]] [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Yagiri]]. When she threatens him, and basically claims to be powerful enough to squash him like a bug, he replies that if she won't listen to reason, he'll have to rely on numbers. He pushes a button on his cellphone, and suddenly the cell phones of ''everybody'' in the vicinity start going off. The look of horror on the faces of Namie and her bodyguards is priceless as the formerly faceless masses are all revealed to be members of the enigmatic Dollars, including several important characters.
== [[Film]] ==
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* In the ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode "Ten Percent Solution", MacGyver uncovers a massive Neo-Nazi conspiracy that has infiltrated a sizeable portion of America.
* On ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'', there is often a variant where a pedophile reminds Our Hero that pedophiles are everywhere, particularly on the [[New Media Are Evil|internet]]. The episodes "Chat Room" and "Pandora" used this technique.
* ''[[Law and Order]]'' episode ''Charm City'', a white supremacist convicted of planting a poison gas bomb on a subway car angrily hisses that "My country is growing, yours is shrinking!" as the credits roll.
** In another ''Law and Order,'' an ADA actually uses this ploy against a defendant who was paranoid about a Scientology-istic cult.
*** I'm sorry, my fellow troper obviously misspoke. What he ''meant'' to say was [[Church of Happyology|"Happyology-istic"]]. Isn't that right? Completely fictional. No reason to sue, whatsover. Right?
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** Before that, a semi-early 2-episode-arc of [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]] featured a paranoid captain warning Picard of "strange happenings" with Starfleet Command. It turned out to be caused by a race of mind-controlling parasites that had already infiltrated every level of SFC's upper echelons, and was spreading out through the most prominant captains to be able to spread even further. Picard and Riker end up blasting what looks like a queen, spend the last five minutes of the show wondering how bad things have become... [[Canon Discontinuity|and then the entire situation is never brought up again.]]
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', when Garibaldi interrogates [[The Mole]] who shot him in the back, he is met with arrogant self-assurance: "There's a new order coming back home, Garibaldi. You can either be part of it, or you can be stepped on. A winner or a loser. I'm with the side that's gonna win." {{spoiler|The prisoner's confidence is borne out when friends in high places arrange his disappearance on his way back to Earth for trial.}}
** The very scene which leads to him getting shot in the back while trying to arrest a terrorist is a veiled
** The slogan "We're everywhere... for your convenience" in the [[Super Registration Act|PsiCorps]] commercial carries a definite overtone of this.
* Trying to keep this from
* In ''[[Torchwood: Miracle Day]]'', the shadowy [[Ancient Conspiracy]] apparently behind the Miracle claim to be "everywhere and always".
** Considering they constantly thwart the heroes' plans, usually with suicide bombers, it shows that their reach is worldwide. Hell, one of their people is {{spoiler|working directly for a senior CIA official and kills him with a bomb when he's onto her}}. What's amazing is that they've managed to {{spoiler|grow from three groups of street thugs to this in under a century}}.
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== [[Music]] ==
* The anti globalization song well [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8j8BmgeYLA&feature=BFa&list=PL03305A4AAFA91B0A&lf=mh_lolz&shuffle=106358 we are everywhere]
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Warhammer
** And thanks to the warp Demons are literally everywhere.
** Also, although they can't really make claim of it, Tyranids use Genestealers to infest the population of a target world, slowly infiltrating important positions. They literately have people everywhere.
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* In ''[[Sev Trek]]: "[[Squick|Pus]]" in Boots'' (an Australian spoof of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'') the evil alien grows from a zit on Commander Piker's face. After it's defeated Councillor Troi says she picked up a final telepathic message from the alien: We. Are. Everywhere. The show then concludes on [[The End - or Is It?|a turbolift full of expendable ensigns with zits]].
* [[Villain of the Week|The Every]][[Me's a Crowd|where Man]] drops the trope name in his self titled episode of ''[[The Batman]]''. At the same time as all his copies all over the building.
* Done in one episode of ''[[Kid vs. Kat]]'' where an evil alien hamster warns Kat before making his getaway that his kind are everywhere.
== Real Life ==
* This is unfortunately, a [[Truth in Television]], as we can see with [[wikipedia:Je suis partout|this newspaper]].
* A real-life (well, as real as the internet community can be considered) example is Anonymous, their mantra being: "We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us." Anonymous's influence has most recently been seen in their protest attacks against the Church of Scientology.
** Anonymous has actually used that quote from Fight Club in some of their copypasta. Well, the bits about "we cook your food etc. DO NOT FUCK WITH US", anyway.
** [[Church of Happyology|Scientology]] actually falls under this as well. The members have a tendency to take jobs that would allow them to spy on any enemies of the cult. One notable example being [[wikipedia:Operation Snow White|the IRS.]]
** In late July 2010, the Tea Party tried to [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/28/888292/-Anonymous-1,-Oregon-Tea-Party-0 use Anonymous' slogan for their own ends.] Anonymous responded...rather sharply.
* Russian partisan girl Zoya Kocmodemianskaya, caught by Nazis and cruelly tortured before execution, [[Defiant to the End|said from under the gallows:]]
{{quote|There are millions of Russians. You cannot hang all of us.}}
* Ted Bundy apparently once stated, "We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere! And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow!"
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